Liz, Helen, and I arrived in Maui on Wednesday, January 16th at the Kahalui airport. Our plane had been delayed for an hour on the tarmac in SFO, so we were late getting in, then it took awhile acquiring the rental car, and making the drive south across the saddle, before heading west through Lahaina to Kahana. We are staying at the Kahana Sunset resort in a condo located a stone's throw (or maybe one of my less well thrown Ellie tennis ball tosses) from the ocean. The surf splashes up on the steep sandy beach which is mostly water covered at high tide, splashing against the retaining wall of our patio.
On Thursday, we decided to explore the nearby area from Lahaina to Kapalua just to get our bearings. I drove, and as usually occurs when there are multiple ideas about where to turn and when, at one point I ended up in a cliff side, narrow, unmarked parking lot which required backing out, with two people (one outside the vehicle) giving me opposing instructions. Luckily (for me), there was a very nice and knowledgeable lady who was watching and stepped in to provide much clearer instructions and I made it out unscathed after several three point maneuvers.
We had set out to locate "John's Beach" since Helen's son, John, had a favorite island (Maui) and a favorite beach (we think it is on Kapalua Bay). So, we found this lovely beach (shown below) that has a nice coastal walking trail along it. From now on, it is known to us as John's Beach--I bet he doesn't know he has one.
Thursday morning was a beautiful day, mostly sunny and clear, but clouds were starting to come in with a small rainstorm predicted for overnight, as the picture below illustrates:
Later we lunched in old town Lahaina, dining at Kimo's right on the ocean. As the driver, I had a non-alcoholic tropical drink, which was both delicius and lovely to look at.
Today is Friday which found us doing a few errands, plotting out our plans for the next week and a half, and making some critical excursion reservations (a door-to-door Robert's bus for taking us to Hana and back, and a tour of a local coconut farm. Then we took a break from all this planning and went out to lunch, this time going to the Whaler's Village where we lunched at Hula's Grill (and I had another beautiful NA tropical drink). We also scheduled out several other explorations, the first being tomorrow as we head north as far as we can safely drive (the road beyond the point we intend to drive to, and turnaround, is not recommended for rental cars as it voids your rental agreement!). 
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